Pepper Sauce
Pepper Sauce appears in 160 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Pepper Sauce appears in 160 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 160
- catalogued products
- #2,261
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 61%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 46 of 160 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare A Classic, Prepared With Whole Eggs, Swiss Cheese & Savory Bacon Quiche Lorraine, Whole Eggs, Swiss Cheese & Savory Bacon; All natural & spicy bloody mary mix; Almonds to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 80–100 score range to Pepper Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
46 of 160 linked records have some flagged component
All 157 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 80–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Pepper Sauce - usage rank #2,261
- Usage rank
- #2,261
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 160 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Averaged label depth puts Pepper Sauce in the lower half of the list (61% of list length, mean slot 23.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Pepper Sauce
Across the 160 products on this site that list Pepper Sauce, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.6x more often with Pepper Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pepper Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 24 | 15% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 21 | 13.1% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 5 | 3.1% | 2.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pepper Sauce
Products Containing Pepper Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 160) for products naming Pepper Sauce:
High-volume peers for Pepper Sauce beside “Anise”
Top-decile company for Pepper Sauce: 160 listings averaging 98/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Anise · Cheese Seasoning · Cherry Juice.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Pepper Sauce page
Start from Pepper Sauce's 160 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Pepper Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Pepper Sauce with a peer such as “Anise” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pepper Sauce carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Pepper Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pepper Sauce? ▼
Pepper Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,261 of 247,206), appearing in 160 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pepper Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pepper Sauce appears in 160 products (#2,261 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pepper Sauce). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.